Re: SsSE 9.2 hardware compatibility
From: David Wright (david_c_wright_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/02/04
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 09:11:19 +0100
Nathan Liskov wrote:
> I am putting together a windows box using and Athlon 64 and would like
> to make it a dual boot system with Linux SuSE 9.2.
>
> I have not been able to find a good hardware compatibility list. Can
> anyone comment on the following components:
>
> Motherboard: ASUS K8N-E with an Athlon 64 3400+ Is there any chance
> of getting sound with the on=board Realtek ALC850? I hope to use the
> on-board Raid 1 with mirrored disks. I saw some messages that
> indicated this might not work under Linux - what happens if windows is
> using Raid 1 on its partitions and Lnux is not?
The motherboard should be fine, as Mark says, he has one, another friend
also has one and it works fine under SuSE 9.2 64-bit. The other friend had
problems getting his video card to dual-head, but apart from that it ran
fine.
Sounds like the sound chip works (sorry ;-) ), although I found with my A8V
motherboard, when under heavy load in Windows, the sound used to break up,
so I bought a dedicated sound card (Audigy 2ZS) and it works perfectly and
also gave a marinal performance boost.
The RAID built into the motherboard is, as far as I know a WinRAID, not full
hardware RAID, so will probably not work under Linux (normally a RAID
controller will cost more than a motherboard, so when you have a
motherboard with integrated RAID, then there is probably something
missing). You can give it a go, but if it doesn't work, you can just use a
Linux Software RAID when installing SuSE.
> Video Card: The store recommended an ATI 9800 Pro, which includes a TV
> input. The ATI web site indicates that they have Linux drivers for
> the 32 bit version of Linux, but not yet for the 64 bit version.
> I've seen some indications that I might be better of with a GeForce FX
> 5900 video card and a separate Hauppauge PVR 250 TV card.
I agree with Mark, going the GeForce route is probably going to cause less
problems. I have a FX5900XT card in this machine and it works fine, the
other machines have a variety of nVidia cards as well (GeForce 4 Ti4600,
MX420, FX5700LE) and all have worked without problems, ATi cards seem to be
harder to set-up and cause more problems from the posts I've read.
> DVD burner. Sony 710A (or LiteOn DVD-RW 16x, which is supposedly a
> cheaper version of the Sony) or a Plextor 12x
I have a pair of LG DVD burners in my machine, one single, one dual) and
they work fine. If it is standard ATAPI, there shouldn't be any suprises...
Dave
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